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Marge and I in 1978 were a middle age suburban Pennsylvania couple with two growing children. This post is about summer ending, a week at the beach, minutae of everyday life, hobbies, memories of the past and comments on them in the present. Join us. Continue reading →

Personal comments and photos about my life here in Las Vegas, NV during 2019; featuring daughters Ingrid and Louise, friends Janet, Dee, and Odile. It was a good year with one minor bump in October when I became ill. The color for the Advent season is blue, signifying hope. I hope you also have had a great 2020 year and look to the future hopefully. Continue reading →

Summer vacation time in PA. Trips for me, mostly business related. I had a speaking engagement in Chicago and made a side trip to Dearborn, home of many museums and similar places of interest. I took a trip at Memorial day to Tampa to spend a few days there with a friend and so some sailing in the Gulf. That was a lot of fun. I went to Poughkeepsie, NY to visit a counterpart at Central Hudson Power. Marge and I both went to Williamsburgh, VA as I was going to a trade show of electric utility vehicles. Marge did some shopping and sightseeing. We left the girls at home and had a very nice time together. Pleasure with business, a good combination. I had a new eye exam and also a detailed hearing exam. Some minor problems but nothing serious. I took up the jogging craze and find it is a good way to unwind after a day at the office and get in good physical shape. I took the exam for a Professional Engineering license 20 years after graduation. It was exhausting but I believe I did OK. Future summer plans involve going to Virginia Beach with another couple for a vacation which we are all looking forward to. Continue reading →

Unusual, for us, stormy weather in January and February of 1978. This did cause some difficulty for me getting to work in Allentown due to drifting. Home repairs and improvement included putting a new relay in the furnace. That was easy. A harder task was getting up on the roof chipping ice from the flashings and repair interior water damage to the floor in place. Marge and I went to a local dinner theater a few times and also to a local production of “A Dolls House” Very pleasant. Marge’s sister Pat, fiance Adam, and her children Kathleen and Scott paid us a visit. Ingrid and I went to dinner on her birthday and to the movie “Close Encouners” Continue reading →

PROLOGUE: Louise visited PA in the fall and took some photos of the house we bought there in 1970. She shared them with me, and I am including a gallery of those pictures, and early ones I have. The man and … Continue reading →

Spring is springing, a young man’s thoughts turn to Love, and a middle-aged man thinks about his trailer. March 74 certainly came in very lamb-like. I was sick again in February with the flu, more severe in February than January. … Continue reading →

November ’73, I am now a year older, but still under the figure of 40, another decade in the odometer of life. And so far it has been a good life. For us, this was a month of trips. The first gasoline crisis … Continue reading →

No, not Springtime For Hitler, that’s been done, but about me and my loved ones. I took a business trip to Oklahoma at the end of April. A local vendor of construction equipment was having a show in Oklahoma City and I … Continue reading →

I want to reprise a bit from the earlier long quote about the Charismatic Movement. It does still exist in different forms, but I don’t believe here (LV). Marge had made some very bad decisions in our early life and was … Continue reading →

Time. Time and time again. What is time? My dictionary first defines time as a noun : the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole; when used differently time is a verb, … Continue reading →

The emotional rush of being in love and a couple, both figuratively and physically, ended about when the relationship texts proclaimed, that is, about 2 years after making our informal commitment to each other. Sure enough, we responded to the ancient call … Continue reading →

Most of us have seen a photo of the earth taken from a satellite, or space ship of some type. The earth, from this vantage, appears as a blue globe against a black field of darkness. Water covers eighty percent … Continue reading →

An old gag goes like this “I opened the door… and in flew Enza.” In 1957 an influenza pandemic struck. It flew in with a vengeance. A description follows from the web site WWW.Flu.gov. “In February 1957, a new flu … Continue reading →

Once, particularly in the heyday of automobiles in this country, “America’s love affair with the car.” was a common phrase. Yes, an advertising cliché, but with some merit. Can you, can I, be in love with a car? I am not anthropomorphic … Continue reading →

Early Fall had arrived to Syracuse in September 1957. Roy and I had settled in to our room at the Infirmary, and were walking on a Friday evening. We had left the infirmary on Waverly, walked east and turned south on … Continue reading →

Have you heard of the S.U. Infirmary? Recapping a bit, Roy and I roomed together at Watson in years 54-55. I lived in G. Cleveland 55-56 and Roy took a year off. We roomed again in G. Cleveland 56-57. We lived in … Continue reading →

Hedwig Cmielewski and I, in the summer of ’57 worked at Saranac Inn, NY. This place appeared in the last post so no sense in repeating that. I was back in my old department at Saranac Inn and this year there was … Continue reading →

Before I write anything, let me state that I am not anti-Semitic, racist, homophobic or have any similar negative traits. I was not going to write about the above, as it might be misconstrued as such. The whole thing was just … Continue reading →

A friend in need. I hope you have had lots of friends, and if some were in need you helped. Lets go back to the ending of the Spring semester at Syracuse. A friend of mine, can’t remember his name … Continue reading →

New York, The Empire State. It was in the 1950’s and still is known that way, who knows why? Wikipedia gives the following note on the subject: the U.S. State of New York has been known by many nicknames, the … Continue reading →

“What in the name of God’s green earth is the Hairy Arms? Well, the short form of the answer is the name of the place I lived in my Sophomore and Junior years in College. It was a residence for … Continue reading →

I have finally come to that point of thinking I have something to share again. And as I often do, I begin with a snippet that resonates with me and my story. This one is from the singer Glen Campbell. If … Continue reading →

April 7, 1970 was another step forward in transforming our new house into a finished home. When we bought the house, the lawn work had never been completed, and we understood that. The excavated material left from digging the basement piled … Continue reading →

The Way-Back machine is dialed to the first of March 1970. The water pressure in the house dropped, then stopped. Why? The first thing I thought of was that a circuit breaker had tripped. I checked this and no luck. Our big … Continue reading →

The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. I do have a moustache, so maybe I am not really plagiarizing as I begin. The way-back machine is set for January 1970 and the place is Beverly … Continue reading →

This blog is about both Marge and I, but to date most has been about our life from my perspective. I have quoted some of her letters and writing from the time we were dating, but nothing really from her … Continue reading →

Sailing Curious how just writing about the past brings up almost forgotten memories. While I was working at the Ozalid plant, I teamed up with a man whose name was Maurice Lee, “Morrie” for short, He was older than me … Continue reading →

We lived in Vestal from the summer of 63 until the fall of 69. Quite a few things happened then and I’ll do my best to remember them in sequence. in 1965 we were still members of the First … Continue reading →

The Berlin Recall was part of the Cold War. A war of words and national actions and reactions, but not shooting, at least for the US. I was a part of that, a very small part. I volunteered for the … Continue reading →

A new decade is upon us.To Marge and I, the most significant event is our marriage in May. More on this later. Marge is in her second semester of her junior year. Next year she will not be a … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a large handsome brick home on the corner of James and Lodi streets in Syracuse. It might have been owned by the president of a local bank or someone like … Continue reading →

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” I figure, if I am going to imitate, might as well do so from a writer of note. And so, Charles Dickens seemed to fit, just a little … Continue reading →

Marge and I being married in 1960

Marge’s 1961 birthday photo

Slideshows

I have removed these fingernail slideshows and replaced them with a separate slideshow post. You can access it by clicking on the link at the bottom of each subsequent posts.

I am now placing the most recent slideshow at the top in reverse chronological order. I can't easily re-do that for the few already posted, but this method should be more user friendly. I usually limit a single show to 25 or less images.

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